Catalog
100 Colones
| Issuer | Banco Anglo Costarricense |
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| Year | 1904-1912 |
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| Currency | Colón (1896-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed note with a central oval vignette at left containing a bust portrait of a bearded gentleman in three-quarter view, set within an ornate scrollwork frame. The denomination '100' appears in large numeral panels at upper left and upper right, with the bank title 'EL BANCO ANGLO COSTARRICENSE' arching across the upper centre and the denomination legend 'CIEN COLONES EN MONEDA NACIONAL DE ORO' displayed centrally in bold letterpress. Issuance details including place 'SAN JOSE', date, and series designator appear at top, with serial numbers printed twice in black and signature lines for PRESIDENTE and ADMINISTRADOR at the lower margin, all set against a fine guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | EL BANCO ANGLO COSTARRICENSE CIEN 100 |
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Banco Anglo Costarricense was not a state bank but a private British-linked commercial institution operating under Costa Rican concession — one of several competing banks of issue that circulated their own notes freely before the Banco Internacional de Costa Rica absorbed the right of issue in 1914. This note therefore predates centralized monetary control entirely, existing in a period when multiple private banks could legally create circulating currency.
The American Bank Note Company printed the series from its New York facility. At this denomination, genuine circulation would have been limited to large commercial transactions — 100 Colones was serious money in early twentieth-century Costa Rica, and surviving examples show comparatively little wear for that reason.